I Totally Agree With Facebook

What can I say, this particular article is fascinating. I find that the results found in this writing are more accurate (when compared to my everyday experiences) and I can relate to them in my personal life more than the previous writings throughout the semester.

My wife spends some of her time on Facebook and therefore writes a lot on the "walls" of others and also tends to instant-message many of her friends. Every once in a while I take a peek at what she's saying (she knows I'm watching) and I find many similarities in the way she "speaks" online to the way women were studied by Guiller and Durndell. Her postings and chats are filled with qualifiers and opinion, and were almost always positive. Even when she had to make a disagreeable statement, she had difficulty in being negative.

Contrary to that, I rarely use Facebook, but when I do chat with friends online, I have no problem being negative if that's what it takes to get what I want. The statistics found in the study say that 23% of the postings are from males, and 77% are from females. You can't argue with those results, especially when I see it first hand in my home.

The females using the words such as "totally," "really," and "very" in postings, also shows that they tend to write similar to how they tend to speak. My sister-in-law and wife are notorious for using these intensifiers within all of their conversations.